Smiley Burnette, said his longtime partner and boss Gene Autry, "couldn't read a note of music
but wrote 350 songs and I never saw him take longer than an hour to compose one."  Arguably
the most beloved of all the B-Westerns!   Each western show ended with Gene Autry singing on
the front porch steps of a farm house with the wonderful Western-styled singing of the
"Sons of
the Pioneers"
backing him.


Smiley Burnette told The Reece Sisters, after hearing them sing at the show they appeared with
Smiley on at the Lexington High School Ball Park, in Lexington, SC, for the Lexington Jayce's
on June 12, 1962.   "Girls, you've got "Good Peaches!"  Now, all you have to do is sell them!!"
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